Milk-cooler.



PATENTED JUNE 2, 1908.

O P. HAY.

NOW BY MARRIAGE, P. DAVIS. MILK COOLER.-

APPLICATION FILED DEO.21,1906.

W 8 ,1 fro/08m Y5 v UNITED STATES PATENT oFFrcE.

PERRIE HAY, (NOW BY MARRIAGE PERRIE DAVIS,) OF MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS.

MILK-COOLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1908.

Application filed December 21, 1906. Serial No. 348,959.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERRIE HAY, a'citizen of the United States, residingat Mineral Wells, in the county of Palo Pinto and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Milk-Cooler, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to milk coolers and has for its object to providea comparatively simple and inexpensive device of this character by meansof which the milk or other contents of the cooler may be maintained at auniformly low temperature without the employment of ice or otherrefrigerant.

A further object of the invention is to provide a receptacle adapted tobe suspended from a suitable support and provided with a plurality offood-supporting trays or compartments, said receptacle being inclosed ina casing or fabric jacket on which is deposited a small stream of waterso that the evaporation of the water will cool the contents of saidreceptacle.

A still further object of the invention is to generally improve thisclass of devices so as to increase their utility, durablility andefficiency.

WVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in theconstruction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafterfully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it beingunderstood that various changes in form, proportions and minor detailsof construction may be resorted to within the scope of the appendedclaims.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification:Figure 1 is aperspective view of a cooler constructed in accordance withmy invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the fabric jacket removed,one of the doors of the upper and lower compartments being shown in openposition.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of thefigures of the drawings.

The improved device comprises a supporting frame consisting of parallelside bars 5 to which are soldered, riveted or otherwise secured aplurality of spaced food-containing trays 6.

Arranged at the upper end of the frame and secured in any suitablemanner to the side bars 5 is a compartment or chamber ,7 the cover 8 ofwhich is substantially conical 1n shape, as shown and serves to connectthe upper ends of the side bars 5.

The compartment 7 is provided with a pair of outwardly swinging pivoteddoors 9 one of which is provided with a suitable catch 10 adapted toengage a keeper 11 secured to the opposite door when said doors aremovedto c osed position.

Disposed at the lower end of the frame and secured in any suitablemanner to the side bars 5 is'an auxiliarly compartment 12 the top ofwhich is preferably formed by the adjacent food-supporting tray 6, saidcompartment being provided with pivoted doors 13 similar in constructionto the doors 9.

Secured to the a ex of the cover 8 is a rod or post 14 on whic ismounted a water supply tank 15, the latter being preferably reinforcedand strengthened by a bead or flat strip of metal 16 which extendstransversely across the top of the tank and down both -sides thereof.

Secured to the bar 16 is a hook 17 by means of'which the cooler may besuspended from a tray or other suitable support, and pivotallymounted-on the bar 16 1s a closure 18 so that water may be convenientlyintroduced into the tank 15.

. The frame is preferably incased in a fabric jacket 19 one end of whichengages the conical shaped top or cover 8 and is secured to the post orstandard 14 by a draw string 20 while the opposite end thereof issecured to a ring or flange 21 carried by a rod section 22 dependingfrom the bottom of the compartment 12. The food compartment or casing 19is split longitudinally and provided with one or more eyelets 23 inwhich is threaded a cord 24 for securing the adjacent longitudinal edgesof the jacket-19 in contact with each other.

Depending from the bottom of the tank 15 i and bearing against the post14 are depending nozzles 25 for feeding the water from the tank 15 tothe jacket 19, said nozzles being provided with suitable stop cocks orvalves 26 whereby the uantity of water from the tank may be regu ated atwill.

It will thus be seen that the water by capillary attraction will followthe course of the fabric jacket so that the latter becomes thoroughlysoaked and by the evaporation of the water constantly cools the contentsof the trays or compartments.

Inorder to obtain access to the upper or lower compartments it is merelynecessary to loosen the draw string 24 and push the lon itudinal edgesof the fabric jacket lateral y when the contents of the compartments ortrays will be exposed so as to permit the same to be readily removed.

It will of course be understood that the cooler may be made of differentsizes and shapes and provided with any number of per and lower iameter,each pair of vertical side bars rigidly connecting thetwo casings, aplurality of trays secured to the side bars at points between thecasings, a water tank, a central post or bar connecting the bottom ofthe tank to the conical top of the upper casing and forming a suspensionmeans, a valved water nozzle leading from the bottom of the tank, aflanged rod dependin from the center of thelower casing, and a Fabricjacket surrounding the casings and trays, the u per end of the jacketbeing gathered around and secured to the post or bar and the lower endof the 'acket being secured to the flanged rod and being thereby heldfrom displacement.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto ailixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

J. H; SMITH, H. N FROM.

PERRIE HAY.

